-+E-Learning+Exemplars

= Exemplar 1: Google Apps =

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Google Apps for Education offer a free set of customizable tools that enable departments, staff and students to work together and learn more effectively.

Google Apps for Communication includes:
 * Communication -** Enhance your community's dialogue with hosted email, shared calendars and integrated video chat.
 * Gmail - 7GB of storage, protect against spam and viruses, stay connected with built-in IM, voice and video chat, IMAP and POP message access, and more
 * Google Calendar - Share calendars and schedule people, groups, rooms and resources easily, even from your mobile device
 * Google Talk - Free instant messaging, voicemail and file transfer make staying in touch a breeze

Google Apps for Collaboration includes:
 * Collaboration**- Google Docs and Google Sites enable students and teachers to share documents online, at any time and from any location.
 * Google Docs - Create and share a variety of online documents, from word processing and spreadsheets to forms and presentations -- all with mobile access.
 * Google Video - Securely share videos that anyone can comment on, tag and rate. Get 10GB free with every domain
 * Google Sites - Effortlessly build shared websites that include videos, images, gadgets and documents
 * Google Groups - Students and faculty can create their own moderated forums and mailing lists featuring strong sharing and management controls

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 * Customization** - Easily integrate your existing IT systems with Google Apps while keeping your school's domain safe and secure.

Google Sites
makes creating and sharing a group website easy.

1. Project Work Site. This site provides all the information required by students in completing a project / task. That includes Calendar, deliverable and related documents. []
 * What can we create by using Google Sites?**

2.Creating a Project wiki which allows a team to put all information together in one place and stay connected. []

3. Creating a Classroom Site which places all the class information together in one place. Stay connected with students and parents and display homework, assignments, class blogs and more information for everyone to access. []

Google Calendar
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Google Docs
includes sharing of Text documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Drawings (Concept-Map), PDF files

N(T) Science Lesson Exemplar in using Google Apps

Creating Forms in Google Docs
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Creating Collaborative Concept Map in Google Docs


= Exemplar 2: Wikis =

A **wiki** is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used to create collaborative works. Examples include community websites, corporate intranets, knowledge management systems, and note services. The software can also be used for personal note-taking.

Wikis serve different purposes. Some permit control over different functions (levels of access). For example editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control. Other rules can be imposed for organizing content.

Popular Wiki Services 1. PBworks [|www.pbworks.com] 2. Wikispaces www.wikispaces.com 3. Wetpaint [|www.wetpaint.com]

Samples of Wiki http://infusingict.wikispaces.com http://ntscienceweb2tools.wikispaces.com/ http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikismedia type="custom" key="9179998"

= Exemplar 3: WebQuest = A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. [] Tens of thousands of teachers have embraced WebQuests as a way to make good use of the internet while engaging their students in the kinds of thinking that the 21st century requires.

Science WebQuests []

[|http://www2.gsu.edu/~mstjrh/internet_quests.htm]

__ Task __ in the event of schools closure, you are to create a E-learning session for your students. Students are to spend a day to work on science related activities and submit their work accordingly. You may want your students to work collaboratively in their separate home on certain tasks.

Work in pairs and choose 1 or 2 science topics to be delivered. Create a wiki space for the above E-learning session and key in the various tasks that you may want your students to work on.